Description: HORTENTIUS [Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, 114 BC to 50 BC]
Inscription Greek: ΑΠΟΛΛΟΝΙΟΥ
Signature: Apollonios
Last Recorded Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 22.139.42
Previous Collections:
Catalogue des pierres gravées antiques de S.A. le Prince Stanislas Poniatowski ([1830?]-1833): IX.2.11
Christie's, London: 1839-1825
Comments: Recorded as Late Republican or Early Imperial garnet, possibly showing Maecenas. Here the Poniatowski engraver is copying the well-known bust signed Q.HORTENSIVS.
